Pakistan has the second highest prevalence of Hepatitis C in the world, up to 5 percent, just after Egypt. People struggle to be diagnosed and get access to treatment because of the high costs and the fact that care is centralised in hospitals, rather than at their local health centre.

MSF started its programme focusing on Hepatitis C in Karachi in April 2015. MSF runs a clinic in Machar Colony slum, on the edge of Karachi’s Fish Harbour, a crowded and polluted area with no proper sanitation system, where people have limited access to healthcare. By providing care for HepC at a primary healthcare clinic, patients can have access to free diagnosis and quality treatment without having to go to a hospital far away from their home, which they often can’t afford because of the cost of the transport.